Improvement in churns



'tntmi grant J'AMEs E. REED, on LAFAYETTE, INDIANA;

Letters Patent No. 110,678, dated January 3, 1871i.

'IMPROVEMENT lN CH'URNS.

The Schedule referred toxin these Letters .':faterit and making part ofthe sante.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. REED, of La Fayette, in the county ofTippecanoe and State of Indiana, have invented a new and improved Ohurn;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art towhich my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, inwhichlhe figure is a perspective view of a churn and rocking-chair,connected for joint operation.

My invention has for its object to provide an iinproved means foroperating chui-ns, to render the process of churning less laborious andtedious; and to this end It consists in the method of applying anordinary .locking-chair to a churn, .whereby the motion of the chair inrocl'iing shall operate the churn, as ,will be hereinafter more fullydescribed.

In the accompanying drawing- A is the body of a churn ot' ordinary orsuitable construction, mounted upon a base or frame-work, B, whichextends to one side of the churn for the reception of an ordinaryrocking-chair, C.

l) is the elmrn-dasher, stepped at its lower end in4 the bottom of thebody A, and pivoteil at its upper end in a bent arm, E, aiiixed to thecover F oi' the churn, as shown.

Gr G are two arms aflixed to the front and rear edges of the chair-seat,and extending parallel to each other over the churn, upon each side vofthe churndasher. f p

To the outer ends of the armsfare secured cords, H, which are wound inreverse directions round the shaft of the churn-dasher.

By this arrangement of the cords H and Varms G, i

with reference to the dasher and chair, the movements of the latter inrocking rotate the dasher alternately in opposite directions with greatrapidity.

The rockers of the chair rest upon two wide parall'el strips, I, of thebase, and are prevented from displacement by being notched transversely,the notches iitting over the transverse barJ of the base, as shown inthe drawing, at every motion of the chair.;

The dasher is readily removed from the churn for cleaning, dto., `bylifting off its upper bearing with the cover.

lhe extension-arms G are adapted to slide within loops K, aixed to thelower edge ot the chair-seat, and when the chair is used simply as arocker and not applied to the churn, are pushed under the seat ont4 ofthe way.

By my invention it will be seen that the process of churning butter canbe easily performed by any person sitting in a rocking-chair withoutemploying their hands in the operation.

Having thus described my invent-ion,

That I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isv l. Thecombination-of the sliding arms G and cords ,y

Witnesses:

G. H. Fnos'r, SAMUEL JONES.

